Obi200 and 202 discontinued?
bobpaul:
Currently the official listing for the Obi202 on Amazon (ie, the one which is linked from ObiHai's product page) shows only third party sellers: one at $175, one at $280. Bestbuy and NewEgg are both out of stock. It does seem like there is a shortage right now. Maybe with everyone working from home sales due to covid went way up? I need to get one for a client soon and was expecting to pay closer to $80.
LTN1:
Quote from: bobpaul on June 10, 2020, 10:14:28 am
Currently the official listing for the Obi202 on Amazon (ie, the one which is linked from ObiHai's product page) shows only third party sellers: one at $175, one at $280. Bestbuy and NewEgg are both out of stock. It does seem like there is a shortage right now. Maybe with everyone working from home sales due to covid went way up? I need to get one for a client soon and was expecting to pay closer to $80.
Newegg is currently selling the OBi202 for $95 (within the past 5 minutes of checking): https://www.newegg.com/polycom-2200-49522-001-accessories/p/N82E16833617016?Description=obi&cm_re=obi-_-9SIA47JAG56129-_-Product
SteveInWA:
Quote from: bobpaul on June 10, 2020, 10:14:28 am
Currently the official listing for the Obi202 on Amazon (ie, the one which is linked from ObiHai's product page) shows only third party sellers: one at $175, one at $280. Bestbuy and NewEgg are both out of stock. It does seem like there is a shortage right now. Maybe with everyone working from home sales due to covid went way up? I need to get one for a client soon and was expecting to pay closer to $80.
No, the products are still in production; they just rebranded them as Poly, not Obihai, and changed the product numbers to use Poly's numbering system.
So, you should be able to find them at Newegg and perhaps other authorized sellers. I dunno why Poly is having such a hard time working with Amazon.
chilirock:
Ok, well maybe they are not "discontinued", but they are clearly not supported by Polycom. They continue to sell the product, but there have been no firmware updates in more than a year to address on-going issues. There have been a number of people in these forums indicating that they have reached out to Polycom for support, and received no response after multiple attempts.
It would almost be better to say the products were discontinued and leave the consumer with no expectation of support, than to keep the product "active" and ignore existing issues and ignore the existing customer base.
drgeoff:
Half of me hopes that the core engineers responsible for the original Sipura ATAs (later reboxed and rebranded as Linksys) who left and started Obihai to produce even better units are even now in a new startup and working on still better units but needing to wait for some restriction on their activities to expire.
But the other half of me often thinks that the current and future market for ATAs is too small to recoup the development costs of new ATAs. The future of VoIP is VoIP phones, not ATAs.
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